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Triablogue: Matthew As A Source On Jesus' Childhood
The authorship of the gospel of Matthew has important implications for issues related to the childhood of Jesus.
Triablogue: Did John 19:27 actually happen?
Last year, I wrote about the implications of John 19:27 for Mary's influence on the apostle John, the church of Ephesus, and other sources ....
Triablogue: Why People Prefer Christmas To Easter
Regardless of whether you have that preference yourself or approve of it, it seems that most people have it.
Triablogue: Disproving Luke's Census Wouldn't Disprove The Bethlehem Birthplace
Nor would disproving the star of Bethlehem, the Slaughter of the Innocents, etc. Events like those are relevant to Jesus' place of birth.
Triablogue: Bart Ehrman Is Wrong About Jesus' Birthplace
He just posted a video arguing against the Bethlehem birthplace .
Triablogue: Why would early sources who believed in the virgin birth not mention it?
Critics of the virgin birth often suggest that it surely would have been mentioned by sources like Paul and the authors of the gospels of Ma...
Triablogue: How plausible is Augustus' initiation of a census in Israel around the time of Jesus' birth?
It's often claimed that the Romans wouldn't have enacted a census in a client kingdom, which Israel was at the time of Jesus' birth.
Triablogue: How To Argue That The Early Sources Agree About Jesus' Childhood More Than Critics Suggest
I've discussed forty examples of agreements between Matthew and Luke about Jesus' childhood . More examples could be cited.
Triablogue: What relationship did Joseph have with Bethlehem?
People often suggest that Joseph lived in Nazareth at the time of the opening verses of Luke 2 and that his only relationship with Bethlehem...
Triablogue: Christmas Resources 2024
A couple of years ago, I put together a collection of approaches that can be taken to begin an argument for a traditional Christian view of ...
Triablogue: Does Christmas have pagan origins?
In my last post , I discussed some disagreements I have with Jozef Naumowicz's recent book on the origins of the Christmas holiday, The Orig...
Triablogue: Is there support for December 25 as Jesus' birthdate prior to the Council of Nicaea?
A book on the origins of the Christmas holiday came out earlier this year, Jozef Naumowicz's The Origin Of The Feast Of The Nativity In The ...
Triablogue: Early Non-Christian Ignorance Of A False Date For Jesus' Second Coming
The charge that Jesus and the earliest Christians set a false date for Jesus' second coming is a common objection to Christianity.
Triablogue: What if Christian miracles don't come from God?
In a recent podcast , Stand To Reason addressed the following question: "All supposed revelation of religions involves a subjective experi...
Triablogue: The Abuse Of Water-Related Language In The Bible To Support Baptismal Regeneration
I've written before about the many Biblical passages that refer to water, cleansing, and such in relevant contexts without having baptism i...
Triablogue: How Jesus Identified Himself By His Actions
Here's something I recently posted on the subject in a YouTube thread :
Triablogue: Claims About What "All Of The Apostolic Churches" And "The Protestant Reformers" Believed
When it's shown that there are significant historical problems with something like the perpetual virginity of Mary, her assumption, or prayi...
Triablogue: Limits On Our Knowledge Of Pre-Reformation History
It's common for critics of Protestantism to claim that various Protestant beliefs are absent in the historical record prior to the Reformati...
Triablogue: Resources For Evaluating The Enfield Levitations
The BBC recently reaired a television program about the Enfield Poltergeist that came out a couple of years ago.
Triablogue: What's the significance of the extrabiblical sources?
We need to keep in mind that the significance of extrabiblical sources varies, and can vary widely , from one context to another.